<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384372" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Don't Tease The Lion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you saw a lion<br>Not within a cage,<br>Would you tease and fret him<br>Till he roared in rage?<br>Would you tempt his anger<br>And his savage power,<br>Knowing he could crush you,<br>Kill you, and devour?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet I know some people<br>Who, morn and noon and night,<br>Tease and fret with bitters<br>The lion-appetite.<br>It matters not what ails them,<br>For each disease and all<br>They seem to think there's healing<br>In demon alcohol.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So they fret the lion,<br>And anger him, until,<br>In his awful power,<br>He springs up to kill.<br>Let me warn you, children,<br>From this foolish way.<br>Do not tease the lion,<br>Nor tempt him any day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Don't believe the doctors<br>If they say you need<br>Any wines or ciders;<br>For there are, indeed,<br>Better cures, and safer,<br>Than these drinks, that slay<br>More than a hundred people<br>Without fail each day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384372" data-title="Don't Tease The Lion de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="If you saw a lion Not within a cage, Would you tease and fret him Till he roared in rage? Would you tempt his anger And his savage power, Knowing he could crush you, Kill you, and devour? Yet I know some people Who, morn and noon and night, Teas..."></div> </div> </div>

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